Chavs, Neds, and Scotia

[Asian]

achademics, trying to be street and proving the opposite.

again, today on the BBC news web 5hite

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4074004.stm

load a bo's man a tell ya, how can you make a list like that when one word or phrase on one side of town might mean another on the other side of the same time never mind the otherside of the country, I mean who says "your mum"! it's "yer maw"!

[pyrat]

cheers for that briiaaan, it pretty book like. better not bum these words too much or I'll end up bummin them all black.

[Kitch]

minger - first recorded in 1995 -

not this side of the border pal !

I offer you a quote from the late 80's

" dinnae go doon there man, its mingin' "

I leave you to ponder the context
- to help your muse I will add that the quote was made by a young lady to a young gentleman orienteer.(not me)

[Scotia]

Asian! Al faking chib ye, ya wee SI Card!

[ryeland of doom]

[quote="Kitch"]minger - first recorded in 1995 -

not this side of the border pal !

I offer you a quote from the late 80's

" dinnae go doon there man, its mingin' "

It was metioned in Hamish's Mountain Walk 1974

Funny to see the word Random used a lot with the meaning I grew up with in the Leominster area - Random as in "radge" or daft, stupid etc.